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I have tried, generally speaking, to restrain myself from going overboard in touting my son Sam’s many pianistic accomplishments, but if you like ragtime — and for goodness sake, who doesn’t like ragtime? — I heartily recommend Sam’s just-released recording (available on a pay-as-you-wish basis...

Chicago Sun-Times reporters recently knocked on police officers’ doors to interview them. The Fraternal Order of Police, the union that represents most of Chicago’s 12,000 rank-and-file officers, took exception, reports the Columbia Journalism Review. The union’s Martin Preib sent a “cease and desist” letter to...

For Moran, Tx., a tiny town 150 miles west of Dallas that was struggling to stay alive, it seemed like a small economic miracle. A company started from scratch by Air Force veteran Jeremiah Cottle soared to more than $10 million in sales in its...

The execution of Houston serial killer Anthony Shore was rescheduled hours away from his pending death after officials began to worry he would confess to another murder, the Texas Tribune reports. Shore, 55, was set for execution after 6 p.m. Wednesday. The district attorney from...

It’s been almost 40 years since someone walked into a Philadelphia fast-food store and shot the owner, Tae Bong Cho, in the back of the head. Robert Lark, 63, was sentenced to death in 1985 for the crime and has been on death row ever...

Walter McDougall’s trenchant Liberty Forum essay on Saint Woodrow and the Great War is as much concerned with the present and future of American foreign policy or grand strategy as with the past.
The closing reference to Donald Trump warns the current administration and its supporters...